I'm not a connaisseur of these songs without words, but this one is beautiful and your sounds like a heartfelt performance. I could not find any fault with it. I'll put it up later.

BTW I meant to ask : Do frogs really burp ? Bad-mannered creatures.. hopefully it's only after eating or drinking. I love them all though, and can't wait until they burp in chorus all night long. We live next to farmland with ditches, and the frog noise can be overpowering in summer. My wife says she hates it, but they can't burp loud enough for me

Hi Scott, beautiful and very devoted playing! I don't know this piece well, but if I'm allowed to nitpick: During listening I thought your touch is constantly so weighted that the difference between the musical climax and the other parts would become a bit obscure (Do you understand what I mean? what a obscure sentence... ) So I'd like to suggest to economize the weighted touch and the heartfelt feeling on "the other parts" and to explode it on the climax.

_________________Hye-Jin Lee"The love for music. The respect for the composer. The desire to express something that reaches and moves the listener." (Montserrat Caballé about her main motivation for becoming a singer)

Hi Scott, beautiful and very devoted playing! I don't know this piece well, but if I'm allowed to nitpick: During listening I thought your touch is constantly so weighted that the difference between the musical climax and the other parts would become a bit obscure (Do you understand what I mean? what a obscure sentence... ) So I'd like to suggest to economize the weighted touch and the heartfelt feeling on "the other parts" and to explode it on the climax.

Hi Hye-Jin,

Thanx for listening. I fully agree with you. Part of the problem is that this piano (a Baldwin 5'7" grand that I looked up yesterday and found that it was built between 1930 and 1940) has hammers that have been compressed over the years of use. There are actually a couple of notes in this recording that didn't sound because of trying to hold back the weight. I also had the una corda partially depressed throughout to get some felt on the strings.

I unfortunately had to give up my 6' Yamaha grand a few years back because it was defining where I could live, and I was moving around a bit, so for an acoustic piano I have to rely on what is available.

Oh, your piano was the problem! Then it's amazing to be able to play so well on such an unreliable instrument Anyway, have much fun with spring

_________________Hye-Jin Lee"The love for music. The respect for the composer. The desire to express something that reaches and moves the listener." (Montserrat Caballé about her main motivation for becoming a singer)

I had never really paid much attention to these Mendelssohn pieces until recently. I downloaded the set from IMSLP and started looking through them because they weren't too long. I was also looking to see where there were holes in recordings of various composers on PS.

Anyway, I rather liked this and it was usable for part of my prelude at church. I'm now looking at some of the others.

Of course, there is one in the whole set that I can never play. I tried playing through it yesterday but had difficulty with my gag reflexes.

"Which one could that be??", you ask. That would be op. 62 no. 6 or the "Hearts and Flowers" theme played on violins during old silent films.

Actually, even though the pieces are rather compact, they offer several challenges among them. Many or not unlike short etudes in that they generally are built on one primary technique throughout a particular piece.

Hi Scott, a very enjoyable and musical performance. Baldwin is a fantastic instrument. Don't worry, a piano technician can soften up those hammers with pins. It will give you a smoother timbre, deepen the tone a bit, and will feel more expressive to play on. Great piece of music.

George

_________________"Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition." ~Riccardo Muti

Hi Scott, a very enjoyable and musical performance. Baldwin is a fantastic instrument. Don't worry, a piano technician can soften up those hammers with pins. It will give you a smoother timbre, deepen the tone a bit, and will feel more expressive to play on. Great piece of music.

George

Thanx for listening, George.

I'm actually in the process of looking into getting the church to have it refurbished/restored/rebuilt and they seem receptive to the idea. The instrument was donated and since it is a good name and actually overall in reasonable condition and considering the price of a new 5'8" Baldwin, we could have a fine instrument.

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